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OpenAI on Monday announced that its advertising business has hit $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate, a milestone that the company is touting as proof of its "diversified business model." The artificial intelligence company is gearing up for what is expected to be a massive

Agentic AI is changing how research is done. AI scientists can read papers, propose hypotheses, call models, and determine which experiments to prioritize next. First proving their value in software engineering, coding agents now write, test, and ship production code. Scientific

Notting Hill Carnival revels in 60th anniversary celebrations - Published Notting Hill Carnival has celebrated its 60th anniversary with three days of revelry fuelled by drummers, dancers and colourful costumes. Europe's biggest street party continued on Monday with the adults' p

In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player, developed by the non-profit VideoLAN, has crossed 7 billion downloads across all platforms. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the president and lead developer of VLC, sent this update in an email. This

GRT has signed an agreement with the promoters of TBZ, popularly known as TBZ The Original, to acquire 49.46 million shares, representing their entire 74.12% stake in the company. The shares will be bought at a price of up to Rs 209 each, subject to regulatory approvals and other

The contract, RAINCHNNAI, is based on the cumulative deviation of rainfall from the Long Period Average (LPA) and will cover September, October, November and December. The Northeast Monsoon accounts for nearly 70% of Chennai's annual rainfall. The launch expands NCDEX's weather d

Sensex dropped over 307 points to end at 76,957 while Nifty 50 lost over 95 points to close at 24,080. Broader markets saw a sharper fall, with Nifty Smallcap 100 and Nifty Midcap 100 indices dropping up to 0.8%. Here's how analysts read the market pulse Escalating tensions betwe

From weeks to minutes: The new agentic era of data pipelines Piotr Wieczorek Lead Product Manager Alexandre Moueddene Software Engineer Data pipelines are the backbone of the modern enterprise, yet a barrier to entry exists for orchestrating them, making this critical capability

Cloud CISO Perspectives: Tips on securing the water sector in the AI era Chris Sistrunk Practice Leader, OT, Mandiant Consulting Stephanie Kiel Head of Cloud Security Policy, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google Cloud Get original CISO insights in your inbox The latest on

A perception stack is shaped by the vehicle that carries it. Move the same software to a new carline—for example, from an SUV to a sedan or another vehicle variant in the portfolio—and its perception of the world changes. The sensor placement, calibration, fields of view, occlusi

Generative AI is making it easier to produce more content and harder to keep track of it. As videos, recordings, and documents accumulate, Adobe, Apple, Google, and a growing number of startups are using AI to make those files searchable. It is not yet clear whether that will sup

Target on Aug. 23 debuted an exclusive Delia’s apparel collection online, the company told Retail Dive. The collection is also rolling out to stores. The assortment — which leans on Delia’s ’90s and early-2000s styles — includes graphic T-shirts, sweaters, skirts, cargo pants, lo

Marking a second consecutive month of decline, monthly registrations of electric two-wheelers (E2Ws) in India fell below the 2 Lakh mark in August. As per Vahan data, E2W registrations fell by 16.2% to 1.72 Lakh units in August from 2.05 Lakh units in July and most players witnes

Epsilon Bidco is currently the largest shareholder in EPL, holding 8,44,79,781 shares, or 26.38% of the company, as of the quarter ended June 2026, according to BSE data. The block deal has been launched at an offer price of Rs 235 per share, representing a discount of up to 10.3

PVR INOX, the country’s largest multiplex operator, on Monday, 31 August, announced that its board of directors had considered and approved a proposal for the buyback of equity shares. The company's board approved the first-ever buyback of up to 20.68 lakh fully paid-up equity sh

Dive Brief: - Urban Outfitters Inc. reported record second-quarter net sales of $1.7 billion, an increase of 10.4% year over year. The company operates Urban Outfitters, Nuuly, Anthropologie and Free People, and attributed Q2 growth in part to 28.6% net sales increase at its Nuul

Motorless solid-state cooler uses heat to cool itself; could recycle processor heat into cooling — shape-memory alloy films could turn data center exhaust into refrigeration Device could potentially help cool data centers without electricity A team of scientists in Germany and Ja

Gold loans expanded 88.1% year-on-year to Rs 5.52 lakh crore according to data released by Reserve Bank of India up to July 31, as compared with 136.4% rate seen a year back. The outstanding gold loans of banks do not reflect gold-backed agriculture loans as banks except one clas

The company allotted 77.92 lakh equity shares at Rs 177 apiece to anchor investors, according to a circular uploaded on the BSE website. Apart from Motilal Oswal Finvest and WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund, other participants in the anchor round included Tata Mutual Fund, CP Capital

The exchange commanded a 99.9 per cent market share in the CAS, with more than 98,000 unique investors participating in the session, NSE said in a statement. The turnover in Monday's session was around 42 times the turnover recorded in the previous trading session. The session co

Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution’s “development, maintenance, [and] documentation.” The new policy on AI acknowledges that “responsible” use of AI can improve developers’ productivity, and goes on to say, “generativ

The sharp movement in these stocks came on a day when changes in constituents for the MSCI Global Standard Indexes took place as of the close of August 31, 2026. Four companies -- Adani Energy Solutions, Billionbrains Garage Ventures, Laurus Labs and Lenskart Solutions -- were ad

John Galliano exhibition at New York Met cancelled after backlash - Published John Galliano has cancelled an upcoming major exhibition celebrating his work as a fashion designer after it prompted criticism due to his previous conviction for making antisemitic remarks. The Metropo

Dive Brief: - Macy’s named Maya Dukes as its senior vice president and executive creative director, effective Monday, the company said in a press release on Tuesday. - Dukes oversees the company’s creative strategy and branding and collaborates with the marketing, merchandising a

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Off the Wire Press Releases REHOVOT, Israel, Aug. 31, 2026 — CollPlant Biotechnologies Ltd. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LightSolver Ltd., an Israeli deep-tech company pioneering a fundamentally new computing architecture based on lasers. T

Earlier in August, cryptography professor Matthew Green wrote a controversial thread on X and a longer blog post that went viral within the cybersecurity community. Green, who has long been a close observer of the debate around the use of hacking tools by governments to fight cri

Messi retires from Argentina duty with 'nothing left to give' - Published Argentina great Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from international football, saying it was a decision that "hurt" but "the time has come". The 39-year-old, who captained Argentina to World Cup glo

Broadcom introduced VMware Private AI Cloud at VMware Explore, a private cloud architecture designed to run AI models close to enterprise data. Rather than moving sensitive data to external model providers, the platform is intended to bring models to the data within an organizati

Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. As part of the deal, MediaTek will adopt Nvidia’s technology that will help it design custom chips for AI companies and hyperscalers that can be plugged directly into Nvidia-based data centers. The deal comes as

Insurance broker Aon announced on Monday it will purchase rival USI Insurance Services from private equity firm KKR. The $17 billion deal, which will be funded by Aon with new debt, is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter, subject to regulatory approvals. CEO Greg Case in a

At VMware Explore, Broadcom introduced comprehensive security, identity, and open-source supply-chain solutions designed for enterprise AI deployments. As organizations move from static model querying to autonomous agentic architectures, workloads increasingly use emerging commun

FPIs were net buyers for a second consecutive month, with their purchases in August being the largest since September 2024, National Securities Depository data showed on Friday. Still, they remain on course for the highest-ever annual outflows from the country, with net sales wor

Jensen Huang and Lisa Su snubbed by TIME’s 2026 list of top 100 AI leaders — Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck, among others, make the list as ‘Architects of AI’ inexplicably not listed Nvidia’s sole representative on the fourth annual TIME100 AI is its head of sustainability, who sit

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on August 27 said the market regulator was close to clearing the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) filed by NSE, the world’s largest derivatives exchange by trading volume. NSE filed its draft prospectus

'She slipped out of my hand' - children missing after ferry sinks off northern Cyprus - Published Ayten Bicer felt her 12-year-old daughter slip from her grasp and disappear as the ferry they were travelling on capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday, killing eight pe

Recently listed logistics company LEAP India’s net profit jumped 30% to ₹24.7 Cr in the first quarter (Q1) of the fiscal year 2026-27 (FY27) from ₹19 Cr in the year-ago period. Sequentially, the company’s profit dipped 8.5% from ₹27 Cr. Operating revenue for the quarter increased

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts There has never been an investing environment like what we’re living through right now. Normally, investors hope and pray to catch the beginning of one generational S-curve of technology adoption. Today we’re watching at least six mega-

Off the Wire Press Releases PARIS, Aug. 31, 2026 — Bull, a leader in advanced computing and AI, has been selected by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the LUMI AI Factory consortium to deliver LUMI-AI, a €387.8 million AI supercomputer that will significantly expand

Nvidia's latest driver update breaks mVolt+ overclocking functionality — Nifty, open-source app allowed users to increase the power limit to 700W on their RTX 50-series GPUs without hardware mods Using the app results in a driver crash. Nvidia's current-gen Blackwell family inclu

Nvidia, MediaTek Bring Custom Chips to AI Racks Nvidia is opening its rack-scale AI systems to custom chips, giving hyperscalers more flexibility as they seek alternatives to off-the-shelf GPUs. Nvidia is opening its rack-scale AI infrastructure to custom accelerators from hypers